Yes but there is supposed to be variance. That is 10 my time, as its 7 now, roughly, like my first time given. But elsewhere online someone pointed
out that there was about 6 or so hours leeway. We'll see.

8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire. 9 They were seared by the intense heat and
they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.

edit on 7-3-2012 by Mattodlum
because: Added Scripture

Praise... If your backwards dog did exist and did these things it would just prove what a sadistic piece of crap he is....

So with a kp index of 7, you may see some auroras at your latitude.
The kp index shows the fluctuations in earths magnetic field, the higher the number the more disturbed the field is. With no activity the number would
be maximum 2.

right now I am right by the port of houston and it is working now ( kind of ) but is was not getting any noaa nothing. I hate to hijack this thread
but I have a Shakespeare about 46ft in the air. what is a good ( better ) antenna? I got something close to this now.
link

It’s a matter of debate what an epic solar storm would do to the modern electric grid. The strongest events on record — in 1859 and in 1921
— hit before the power grid existed.
On the evening of Sunday Aug. 28, 1859, New Jerseyans saw "one of the most beautiful exhibitions of the northern lights ... ever seen. The sky
brightened with them and the light furnished was equal to a full moon," according to the Newark Daily Mercury’s account of the aurora borealis.
That storm damaged parts of the telegraph system, and another outburst in 1921 brought the New York Central Railroad to a halt.

Whether transformers — the workhorses of the modern grid that ramp power up and down — would be vulnerable to a similar solar storm is
unclear. Mark Lauby, director of reliability assessment and performance analysis for the North American Electric Reliability Corp., which is
authorized by the U.S. government to set reliability standards, noted only a handful of transformers were knocked out in Quebec in the 1989 solar
event.
"The power systems have been around a hundred years and we only had one event like this, in Quebec, and they were back up in nine hours," Lauby
said. "This isn’t going to cause any physical damage except for a few frail transformers."
That view is shared by staffers at PJM Interconnection.
"We would think that the large majority of the transformers would survive," Koza said.

No spares for the big transformers, big deal to fix them. Even with power on in the workshop.

Yet George Baker, a retired professor at James Madison University who spent 22 years at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency — an arm of the
Department of Defense that deals with threats including nuclear weapons — notes that nuclear weapons exploded in or above the atmosphere can produce
an electromagnetic pulse much like the effects of a solar flare.
"The conclusion of the (electromagnetic pulse) studies was you could have something as bad as the entire national power grid collapsing," Baker
said.
Instead of hours, he believes it could take years for the world to recover from a 100-year solar storm.

When I get spotty reception the first thing I do is check my antenna connection.

But, as I said, VHF is not really affected by solar activity. In fact, if anything, it may make it possible to make contact with more distant
stations. But that applies more to the ham bands than marine VHF.

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